Meanings
- not comparableIn the work (already) cited or quoted. Used, typically in footnotes and endnotes, to cite in an abbreviated form a source that has been cited previously; frequently abbreviated as op. cit.
On the lack of a true forum for discussion in the PPP, see, among others, Waseem, opere citato, pp. 324–325; Anwar H. Syed, op.cit. pp. 207–214.
2004, Subrata Kumar Mitra, Mike Enskat, and Clemens Spiess, Political Parties in South Asia, page 176, note 32 (Greenwood Publishing Group; →ISBN, 9780275968328)1 more example
k̂ey-², however, has both in the Baltic nouns adduced and in the Baltic pronouns added by Arbeitman (operibus citatis) both centum and satəm reflexes.
2000, Yoël L. Arbeitman, editor, Orbis Supplementa — The Asia Minor Connexion: Studies on the Pre-Greek Languages, in Memory of Charles Carter, Peeters Publishers, →ISBN, page 14, →ISBN
Origin
- Latinopus“work”
- Latinopere citātō“in the work quoted”
- Englishopere citato
From post-Classical Latin opere citātō (“in the work quoted”), ablative singular form of opus citātum (“quoted work; the work quoted”), from Classical Latin opus (“work”) + citātum, neuter singular past participial form of citō (“to summon”). Compare opus citatum, opere laudato, loco citato, locus citatus.
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